I wish I had found this group years ago. I didn't undestand what was happening and didn't know that our hell was the norm for this group. I thought AD was just a gentle fogetting-kind of cute and funny. People on my other group were either caring for parents or older relatives. Many of them had lost their loved ones and just hung on to the group unable to move on. They got me through the rough spots-but losing your spouse and all your dreams is different. bluedaze
bluedaze I guess the reason you thought it was a gentle forgetting-kind of cute and funny is because the media really protrays it much different than what it is.
And one thing that I find difficult in addition is that the media makes things appear to progress SOOOO rapidly. It doesn't happen that way...over a couple months. It's so hard to try to explain to some people.
There is some understanding of how long all of this takes, because of President Regan. But there wasn't much coverage. At one point one of his sons was "going public" with the fact that he no longer recognized his children and that was at least a year or more before he died. There were also the events where all the other past presidents were attending where he no longer could. At one point we had something like 5 past presidents showing up for events, with one "empty chair".
So there has been some coverage. It might be easier on all of us if there had been more. But I understand why his family didn't want that.